cherry
nounadjectiveverbcommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈt͡ʃɛɹi//
- Australia//ˈt͡ʃeɹi//
- Scotland//ˈt͡ʃɛɾe//
A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
noun
- 1
A small fruit, usually red, black or yellow, with a smooth hard seed and a short hard stem.
- 2
Prunus subg. Cerasus, trees or shrubs that bear cherries.
- 3
The wood of a cherry tree.
- 4
Cherry red.
- 5
The fruit of the coffee plant, containing the seeds or beans.
- 6
slangVirginity, especially female virginity as embodied by a hymen.
"Well, Dangerfield, in less than an hour I'm off in search of my fortune. Jesus, I'm excited, like I was going to lose my cherry. Woke up this morning with an erection that almost touched the ceiling."
Nothing stands in your way when you're a boy / Clothes always fit ya / Life is a pop of the cherry when you're a boy
Philips—Sergeant Gerheim's black, silver-tongued House Mouse—is telling everybody about the one thousand cherries he has busted.
So what bitch, I busted your cherry – / Hell fucking no, I don’t wanna git married
- 7
A subtree consisting of a node with exactly two leaves.
Non-isomorphism is detected whenever the algorithm finds a cherry v#95;1#92;inT#95;1
Step 3: Output the tree T. The edge lengths of T are determined recursively: If (x,y) is a cherry connected to node z as in Step 2
- 8
slangA red cricket ball.
The Indians have to get early wickets on the morrow and they will have the option of taking the new cherry.
Players are back out and it's Harmison to have first go with the cherry.
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slangA reddish mark left on the bat by the impact of the ball.
- 10
A round, red light of the kind that is typically mounted on top of a police car.
"What do you think?" he asked as he wove through traffic, matching Sanford's speed but without the benefit of a flashing cherry on the roof of his car.
“This is a cartel operation,” Hackett said as Larson activated the dash-mounted cherry
- 11
The burning tip of a cigarette.
I'm horrified: Dag is burning holes in the roof of the car with the cherry of his cigarette.
- 12
slangA woman’s breasts.
Etymology
From Middle English chery, cherie, chirie, from Anglo-Norman cherise (mistaken as a plural) and Old English ċiris, ċirse (“cherry”), from Proto-West Germanic *kirsijā, from Vulgar Latin ceresia, derived from Late Latin ceresium, cerasium, from Ancient Greek κεράσιον (kerásion, “cherry fruit”), from κερασός (kerasós, “bird cherry”), and ultimately possibly of Anatolian origin (the intervocalic σ suggests a pre-Greek origin for the word). Doublet of cerise, Giresun, and kirsch.
adjective
- 1
Containing or having the taste of cherries.
- 2
Of a bright red color; cherry red.
- 3
informalIn excellent condition; mint condition.
A few years earlier, I’d restored my ’65 Mustang convertible to cherry condition—fire engine red, with matching tuck-and-roll—and I wasn’t surprised that it drew attention.
All of my action figures are cherry
verb
- 1
datedTo redden; to infuse a cherrylike color to something.
- 2
datedTo cheer, to delight.
Forms
- plural
- cherries
- comparative
- cherrier, more cherry
- superlative
- cherriest, most cherry
- past tense
- cherried
- past participle
- cherried
- present participle
- cherrying
- third person singular
- cherries
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